There is, in my underworld landscape, a huge pool deep in the bowl of a steep-sided valley. The first time I saw it, I fell down to my knees in astonishment.. We took a steep path down the cliffside, Snake and Bear, my guides The Lady and Bear Fella, and me, single file, and with me having no idea what we were doing or where we were going. I only hoped my task did not involve swimming in that deep milky blue pool. It was too overwhelming for my mind to encompass. In my mind, I called it The World Pool, but we skirted around it and climbed down beside the waterfall where it spilled over the sides of its earthen bowl, and then we all slipped behind the curtain of water. There was a cave under the world pool, and I found myself standing directly under the pool, separated from the vast bulk of water by only the thinest of translucent membranes. I looked up into its depths and saw swimming in there a slow and graceful dance of whales, huge, magnificent, like some sort of primal song in motion to which my own heart beat. The mind knows little limit, and we are an intrinsic part of something so old and knowing and perfectly, absolutely right - that if we could truly live every day in this knowledge, our joy would change our lives. #shamanichealing #shamaniclife #transformation #freedomofjoy #magic Art by Jeff Wilkie
